Empty Promises

“I Love You”, when said correctly, can be the single, most important phrase a person could ever hear. It could be that person’s sole reason for living, for desire, for happiness. But, when it’s said wrong, when its not meant, can ruin a persons life. The everything they knew crashing down on top of them, making their world suddenly halt and spin rapidly in the opposite direction. The never-ending echo of the empty, meaningless words, ebbing and flowing though their body, like an unstoppable bomb- ticking, ticking, ticking, till it explodes and shatters the heart for good. When said wrong, said to make somebody shut up, to make them happy, it ruins them…forever. I will always remember that empty, shattered promise of those three simple words, etched into a lie that ruins forever: I Love You.

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